How To Install texlive-texlive.infra.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-texlive.infra.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. texlive-texlive.infra.noarch is basic TeX Live infrastructure

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-texlive.infra.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `texlive-texlive.infra.noarch`

This package contains the files needed to get the TeX Live tools (notably tlmgr) running (sometimes) tar and wget. These files end up in the standalone install packages, and in the tlcritical repository.

We can use yum to install texlive-texlive.infra.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-texlive.infra.noarch.

Install texlive-texlive.infra.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install texlive-texlive.infra.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texlive-texlive.infra.noarch

How To Uninstall texlive-texlive.infra.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the texlive-texlive.infra.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove texlive-texlive.infra.noarch

texlive-texlive.infra.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/texlive/LICENSE.CTAN
/usr/share/texlive/LICENSE.TL
/usr/share/texlive/README
/usr/share/texlive/README.usergroups
/usr/share/texlive/index.html
/usr/share/texlive/readme-html.dir/readme.cs.html
/usr/share/texlive/readme-html.dir/readme.de.html
/usr/share/texlive/readme-html.dir/readme.en.html
/usr/share/texlive/readme-html.dir/readme.fr.html
/usr/share/texlive/readme-html.dir/readme.it.html
/usr/share/texlive/readme-html.dir/readme.ja.html
/usr/share/texlive/readme-html.dir/readme.pl.html
/usr/share/texlive/readme-html.dir/readme.ru.html
/usr/share/texlive/readme-html.dir/readme.sr.html
/usr/share/texlive/readme-html.dir/readme.zh-cn.html
/usr/share/texlive/release-texlive.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/web2c/fmtutil-hdr.cnf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/web2c/updmap-hdr.cfg
/usr/share/texlive/tlpkg/TeXLive/Splashscreen.pm
/usr/share/texlive/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLConfFile.pm
/usr/share/texlive/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLConfig.pm
/usr/share/texlive/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLDownload.pm
/usr/share/texlive/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLPDB.pm
/usr/share/texlive/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLPOBJ.pm
/usr/share/texlive/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLPSRC.pm
/usr/share/texlive/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLPaper.pm
/usr/share/texlive/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLTREE.pm
/usr/share/texlive/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm
/usr/share/texlive/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLWinGoo.pm
/usr/share/texlive/tlpkg/TeXLive/TeXCatalogue.pm
/usr/share/texlive/tlpkg/TeXLive/trans.pl
/usr/share/texlive/tlpkg/TeXLive/waitVariableX.pm

References

texlive-texlive.infra.noarch website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-texlive.infra.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.